Macbook air or macbook pro?? && now or wait???

I'm a software engineering undergraduate student and I use my laptop a lot.
And it's time for me to renew my laptop and I want to buy a mac (I have been using Sony laptops all this time and I wanna change now)..
I use it mainly to surf the internet, watch a LOT of movies, music, msn and to do university work..
but the software we use for the university are always available for mac as well because most of the students use mac...
So i realllyyy like the mac book air.. I mean it looks really nice..
and I was planning on buying the 13" MacBook Air with 1.8Ghz dual core intel core i7 processor and the macBook Air super drive as well..
But when I told this to my friends, they all seem to think the macbook pro will be a better choice.. They mentioned that I'll be needing a much more storage space but I'm also planning on buying a new portable hard drive to store all my movies and stuff..
What do you guyz think?
Will macBook pro be the better choice?
Also is there a new version of macbook air /pro coming out soon??
I mean should I wait or buy it now..
Please tell me because I've never used mac before and i dont know anything about it...
Thanks..

If you can wait, wait.
If not, then the 13" MBA and 13" MBP are almost identical in performance, other than the SSD drive in the Air.
Both the RAM and HD in the MBP can be upgraded. The RAM in the MBA is soldered to the motherboard and the SSD drives in the Air are more expensive to upgrade, than adding a SSD to the MBP.
Under the ToU cannot speculate on future products, other than to say if you wait long enough there will be something new and better coming along.

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both Air and new Pro now have PCIe SSD and permanent RAM.
The Air is the lightweight portable form factor, fast to boot and shut down, but with longer battery life than any of the macbook pro in 13"
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both have 802ac wifi
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both are slim profiles and SSD
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both are now "very good for travel"
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You need an external HD regardless of what you get for backups etc. Drop into an Apple store and handle both and make your choice based on features, such as Retina or non-retina, .... both at a distance now look like the same computer.
The Pro weighs more, ....but nowhere near what it used to just a month ago on the older macbook Pros
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As you see below, the non-Retina 13" AIR is 82% of the Macbook with Retina display in resolution
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